Len Francis Monahan

Biography: Len Francis Monahan grew up in Toledo, Ohio, an industrial port-city on the western shore of Lake Erie. As a child, Len remembers swinging out on a rope over Swan Creek, gliding in a canoe over the misty waters of the moonlit Maumee River and laying in the sunken graves of Potter's Field precisely at midnight. These youthful adventures and the fact that Len was brought up in an actively haunted house may explain the genesis of the word "Ghosts" in the title of this book. Len's father supported the family of ten by working as a "garbage man" and Len began his work-life as a blue-collar worker. Len's former occupations included sailing the Great Lakes as a merchant marine; toiling on factory assembly lines; working as a full-time, nightclub musician; being a professional writer and more. Len graduated from the University of Toledo where he majored in psychology and philosophy. Presently, he and his wife Elaine live in the Sierra Nevada Mountains where they enjoy a peaceful, rustic existence. Of late, there not been many "ghosts" beleaguering Len except those haunting the deep-seated imaginings of a restless mind, keeping him relentlessly awake and causing the lamps of his writer's den to remain ever lit throughout the night.